Nikon Confirms New Mirrorless System Coming in Early 2019, What About Canon?

A Nikon representative confirmed that their new mirrorless system will be coming by spring of 2019 (video here). We’ll assume this new mirrorless system is going to be full frame, and perhaps an APS-C little brother as well.

So what about Canon? We know there are various bodies in testing and at various stages of Read more. . . . canonrumors.com

We still find it somewhat amazing that no one has yet challenged Sony in the full frame mirrorless market. It is to the point now that any serious contender to the FE system will need to be pretty great right out of the gate, as Sony has had many years not to perfect and work the kinks out of their system. thephoblographer.com »

You would have to be quite the optimist to have expected new models in Nikon's 1 series of 1" sensor mirrorless system cameras being launched any time soon. Despite camera manufacturers hardly ever announcing a product line's end-of-life, the 1-series phase-out is now pretty much official. dpreview.com »

Nikon CEO Kazuo Ushida confirmed at Newswitch. jp that they are working on a new professional mirrorless camera system. In his words this will be a “Nikon-rashii” camera which means it will be unique and different from other companies in terms of performance. sonyalpharumors.com »

Nikon Europe has posted a video on YouTube that seems to tease the upcoming full frame mirrorless camera from Nikon, along with the rumored new “Z mount”. If you move forward to 1:05 in the video, you’ll see what everyone is talking about.

Nikon Rumors has posted the first rumored specifications of Nikon’s full frame mirrorless cameras. Two mirrorless cameras: one with 24-25MP and one with 45MP (48MP is also a possibility). I assume both cameras are full frame (I did not get a specific confirmation on that).

Nikon is still one of the largest and most well-known camera brands out there and a question that many newcomers to photography always want answer is “what are the best lenses for my camera”. It doesn’t matter if you shoot Fujifilm, Sony, Canon, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, or in this case Nikon.

The beginning of the year did not look too well for the photo industry, sales were down (almost across the board) for apparently little reason. But now that the year has progressed we are starting to see numbers in terms of shipments much more around the numbers we have expected to see.